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364 Abbe Mann's Account of ance of father Roger Lee, an Englifh Jefuit ; but could never obtain an approbation from the pope. In the year 1622 po- verty obliged them to break up at St. Omer's ; and a few of them obtained a precarious refidence in the diocefe of Cologne. Thefe, in the year 1629, fought to fettle at Liege ; but being difcountenanced there, they foon after removed to Munich, the capital of Bavaria, where they procured a handfome fettle- ment, which I believe they ftill enjoy. Their ckief employ- 'ment is the education of young perfons of their own fex. 1 6. Auguftine Nuns in Louvain. Thefe canoneffes of St. Auffin were firft eftablifhed in the year 1609, by Mrs. Mary Wifeman, a profeiTed nun of the Flemifli ^convent of St. Urfula in Louvain. They were governed by a priorefs, and educated young ladies. This houfe enjoyed con- fiderable funds, and fubfifted till the French invafion in 1 794, when the members of it fled out of the Low Countries. 17. BenedicTme Monks m Pans. This priory was firft founded at St. Malo, in the year 161 1, by Giffard, archbifliop of Rheims, who before his elevation to that fee had been the firft prefident of the Englim congregation of St. Benedict. The French king not permitting this houfe to continue at St. Malo, on account of the proximity of this place to England, archbiihop Giffard procured them another at Paris, which afterwards (in 1642) was changed for one in .the Rue St. Jacques, where they remained till 1793, when they were involved in the common deflruclion of the French revolution. During their exiftence in Paris thefe monks en- joyed all the privileges of the university, with regard to ftudies, 4 degrees,